Australian transplant and wanderlust guru Christian Lane-Brown arrived in Long Beach in early 2001 with nothing more than a backpack and a few crumpled notes in his pocket. A six month stint turned into six years and, well, the rest as they say, is history. He embraced Long Beach’s lack of stuffiness claiming to be more “buttoned down than buttoned up” and, with a passion for free thinking, he found Long Beach to be a great fit considering his penchant for creativity and the outdoors.
“It is easy to feel comfortable in Long Beach,” says Lane-Brown. “The city caters to such a broad spectrum of interests. From urbane to unfinished and eclectic, I enjoy art house theaters and fine dining, but love to jump into motorcycle racing along the docks and wash it all down with a cold beer whislt overlooking the harbor.”
Born and raised in a land down under, Sydney to be exact, Lane-Brown is a graduate of Macquarie University, Sydney, and has dabbled in journalism along with a number of other industries, including television, automotive, demolition, and print before being lured to the “dark side” of media advertising. He has also traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, Europe and most of the United States. While travel is a passion for Lane-Brown, so is literature, film, language, architecture, fast and often expensive machines and, of course, his patient wife Shelby. The Long Beach resident also claims to have a pet marmot named Syd Vicious. Hmmm… we’ll just take his word for it.
Long Beach Magazine